Why do some people reach out during a crisis while others do nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump supporters will stay loyal to the\nvery end as did many Germans stay loyal to Hitler to the very end as\ndid many Southerners stay loyal to the Confederacy and institution of\nslavery. Nothing really ever changes for fanatics. They can’t simply\nwake up from the spell and say, \u201cWow. I was wrong.\u201d They can’t\nstop falling when they’ve jumped off a cliff and then fly upward to\nstand on the cliff again. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I continue to walk into strange stories\nduring the self quarantining. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I recently heard perhaps the most\npreposterous but utterly believable story about beavers and\nbeaverwood. I will try to write it up later but my storytelling\ntalent may prove inadequate to capture its sheer farcical magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve written another country song. This\none is based on something I heard on Christian radio on Easter\nSunday. It’s called \u201cJesus Will Rise on the Internet\u201d and it is a\nsure fire hit. One stanza goes: They couldn’t go to church on\nEaster Sunday \/They couldn’t have a potluck with green bean casserole\n\/ They couldn’t wear their wrinkled suits or pretty homespun dresses\n\/ They couldn’t drink Christ’s blood in shiny silver cups \/ But roll\naway the stone for the returned savior, ’cause Jesus will rise on the\ninternet. <\/em>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another line goes:\nThey couldn’t fixate on the crucifixion \/ They couldn’t sing songs\nof the devil and superstition…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I am writing this outside enshrouded in\nfog. I can’t ever recall writing in fog before. I kind of dig it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My neighbor is letting me walk his dog\nagain. He threw in the towel on social distancing. Joy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Who would have ever thought that\n\u201ctaking a drive into the country\u201d would return as a major form of\nrecreation. In the early 60s it was the number one rated \u201coutdoor\nrecreation\u201d activity in America. I am not making that up. I came\nacross that fact while researching a story about Highway 101 and the\nOregon Coast. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Someone knocked on my door the other\nday and gave me a bag of fresh trout. It was caught by perhaps the\nmost strangely delightful pair of fishermen in the world. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n I wish some people would order some\nbooks from me. I would load them up with some extra goodies. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’ve started wearing windbreakers\nagain. I can’t believe I ever got out of the habit. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why do some people reach out during a crisis while others do nothing? Trump supporters will stay loyal to the very end as did many Germans stay loyal to Hitler to the very end as did many Southerners stay loyal to the Confederacy and institution of slavery. Nothing really ever changes for fanatics. They can’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corona-virus-thoughts","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6038,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions\/6038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}